With just short of two dozen watercolour images plus an assortment of pen and ink spot illustrations, this book is a wonder. Dulac has always been in Arthur Rackham's shadow. A look at these illustrations makes you wonder way - Dulac was certainly a better artist and much better colourist. His output was incredible and his work isn't as posed or cartoonish as Rackham's could be. Dulac - who was Fench - took his work seriously. (Rackham's illustrations to Poe indicate he didn't really "get" Poe: Dulac's works show an understanding of the funereal and poignant longing in Poe.) Comparisons aside, the Arabian Nights illustrations are astonishing works by any standard. His level of sucess was demonstrated by an on-going arrangement he had in London; a gallery would commission Dulac to do a series of works for a literary work. A publisher would buy the reproduction rights and the gallery would sell the original artwork. Nice work if you can get it . . .